cuneo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cuneo, cuneare, cuneavi, cuneatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wedge in, secure by wedging; force in like a wedge; form a wedge, taper; mass;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st - Entry →cuneus, cunei:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
wedge; wedge-shaped stone/area/rack/block of seats; battalion/etc in a wedge;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...10attollique suum laetis ad sidera nomenuocibus et plausu cuneos certare sonantes;qualis erat populi facies clamorque fauentisolim..."Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...summa rapit celerem uenabula pardum.tunc densos inter cuneos conpressus et omniuallatus bello uincit, quem respicit, hostem. 185iamque hebes..."Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...inquit "milites quadringentos ad eum locum in hostium cuneos quisnam erit, qui ducat?" "Si alium" inquit tribunus "neminem..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nemus; gemit illa multo uulnere impresso minax frangitque cuneos, resilit incussus chalybs uolnusque ferrum patitur et rigidum..."Domitianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...maior intra popularia decidebat, quinquagenas tesseras in singulos cuneos equestris ac senatorii ordinis pronuntiavit. V. Plurima et amplissima..."
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...implet. ille volat campis immensaque funera miscet per cuneos, velut hiberno proruptus ab arcu imber agens scopulos nemorumque..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...belligeri Capaneus agit aequore campi, cornua nunc equitum, cuneos nunc ille pedestres, et proculcantes moderantum funera currus; idem..."Stichus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...EPIG. Si arte poteris accubare. GEL. Vel inter cuneos ferreos; tantillum loculi, ubi catellus cubet, id mi satis..."